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[rm]

Dear All of Every Fandom Ever,

Please stop overusing the word "lover."

Please.

Thank you.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

"Try it out. Taste the word on your tongue. LOVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH."

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

But it is one of the finest words out there!

[monkeycurious.livejournal.com]

"Fuck Buddy!" :P

[rm.livejournal.com]

Not when it's in every single sentence.

[helens78]

"That... guy, you know. Over there. He's my, uh, HEY YOU!"

I'm also reminded of a Doonesbury from ages ago before Joanie and Rick got married, when she was struggling to come up with a name for him.

Joanie: He's my, um, my...
Lacey: Your young man, dear.
Joanie: That would be it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hehehe.

I mean, I get the need for teh word, but I've just hit three fics in a row where it showed up practically every sentence and was sending me to the back button.

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

It has always made my skin crawl when it's used as a term of endearment, for some reason.

[dipping_sauce]

If that's from that SNL skit, it's what I was thinking too.

[threewalls]

I've had similar reactions to an over abundance of "I love you" as well as the term "lover" in fic. For me, it was the "show, not tell," thing: writers using these words/terms rather than convincing me the people actually were in love (and sometimes with body language and actions that suggest love isn't quite the word for it).

And when characters someone hasn't convinced me are in love use words like this *all the time"? Creepy, which I'm sure isn't the intended reaction.

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

Eew, no. There is definitely a such thing as "too much of a good thing." Sigh.

[haste.livejournal.com]

AMEN.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Besides, if it is Torchwood and Captain Jack fic, then the correct term is "booty call."

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

LOL!

What was the tipping point?

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

It's all I ever think when I see that word.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. I DON'T UNDERSTAND. I can recall using that word in writing exactly one time in the past... I don't know... ever, and it's totally someone joking around and being like, "Who's your lov-aaaah?"

When is that ever a good noun to use? Like ever?

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Hee- I was thinking of exactly this :)

[username-ha.livejournal.com]

Well said, lover.

*smirk*,*duck*

[gement.livejournal.com]

I've just started reading you (because you threw your hat in the advisory board ring), and this post just knocked me sideways. I thought it was just me!

(Mind you, I'm now guilty of it occasionally in my writing as well, but that's because I started dating someone who honestly calls me "lover" in normal conversation; it's creeping into my vocabulary... Make it stop...)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Welcome.

Occasional usage is okay, but it drives me utterly bugfuck in most of the universes I read and write in as it's just not a word that makes sense with the worldviews involved.